teleology Quotes

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else... ...

Nature does nothing in vain.